Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce The Big Apple, a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

27 April 1965, Long Beach (CA) Independent, “Those Blasted Reminder Rhymes” by George Robeson, pg. A3, col. 1:
An old rhyme for revelers goes something like, “Beer before wine, everything fine.” Everything is fine, unless the saying goes, “Beer AFTER wine...” A little mistake like that can turn into a pretty big mistake if you’re the type person who would drink both beer and wine in one evening, and I wouldn’t be surprised if you are.

Google BooksSex and Death to the Age 14
By Spalding Gray
New York, NY: Vintage Books
1986
Pg. 39:
It was there that he learned the good old German drinking expression, “Beer on wine, das is fine, wine on beer, das is fear.”

Goolge BooksA Dictionary of American Proverbs
By Wolfgang Mieder, Stewart A. Kingsbury and Kelsie B. Harder
Published by Oxford University Press
1992
Pg. 43:
Beer before wine, you’ll feel fine; wine before beer, you’ll feel queer.
Var.:
Wine on beer brings good cheer; beer on wine is not so fine.

A cautionary rhyme from my youth:
“Beer on wine, all fine;
beer on whiskey, mighty risky.”

And a variation:
“Wine on beer, all clear;
wine on whiskey, mighty risky.”

Google BooksAlcoholica Esoterica:
A Collection of Useful and Useless Information as it Relates to the History and Consumption of All Manner of Booze
By Ian Lendler
New York, NY: Penguin Books
2005
Pg. 239:
“Beer before wine, you’ll feel fine. Wine before beer, you’ll feel queer.”